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Transport

through designated toll booths without having to stop to pay. In 2018, 48.7 per cent of motorists used autotoll.

A 'stop-and-go' electronic payment service lets motorists pay tolls with Octopus cards and certain contactless credit cards. As at end-2018, the service was provided at the Cross-Harbour, Shing Mun, Aberdeen, Lion Rock and Tseung Kwan O tunnels, the Eastern Harbour Crossing, the Lantau Link and the Sha Tin Heights-Eagle's Nest-Tai Wai tunnels.

Parking

Where there is demand and traffic conditions permit, on-street parking is provided to meet the short-term parking needs of motorists. At the year end, there were about 17,900 parking spaces with electronic parking meters installed and about 16,700 non-metered on-street parking spaces.

The Transport Department owns 11 multistorey public car parks across the city. These are run by two private operators under government contracts and provide about 5,500 public parking spaces.

In addition to government car parks, about 198,100 off-street public parking spaces are provided by the Airport Authority Hong Kong at the airport, the Housing Department and the Link Reit in some public housing estates, and the private sector in multistorey commercial/ residential buildings and open-air public car parks.

Park-and-ride facilities are operated by the MTRCL at Choi Hung Station on the Kwun Tong Line; Hong Kong, Kowloon and Tsing Yi stations on the Airport Express Line; Hung Hom Station on the East Rail Line; Kam Sheung Road Station on the West Rail Line; Ocean Park Station on the South Island Line and West Kowloon Station on the XRL, and by private operators at commercial car parks located near Olympic Station on the Tung Chung Line, Wu Kai Sha Station on the Ma On Shan Line, Tuen Mun Station on the West Rail Line and Hang Hau Station on the Tseung Kwan O Line. The government also provides a park-and-ride scheme at the public car park of Po Shek Wu Estate near Sheung Shui Station.

To help motorists find parking spaces, the real-time vacancy information of about 260 government and commercial public car parks is available on the Transport Department's mobile application HKeMobility and Hong Kong eRouting website. The parking vacancy data of some of these car parks is also available on the data.gov.hk portal. The government will continue to encourage car park operators to release real-time vacancy information and data.

Road Safety

There were 15,935 road traffic accidents involving injuries in 2018, of which 1,682 were serious and 107 were fatal. This compares with 15,725 accidents in 2017, of which 2,070 were serious and 104 were fatal. The total number of fatal and serious road traffic accidents decreased 17.7 per cent compared with 2017.

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